The recipe for a NZER or NZE house includes a building enclosure that incorporates optimized levels of insulation to limit thermal bridging, achieves exceptional levels of airtightness, engages fenestrations with a low U-value, and...
Tag: Sustainability
BMO’s new workspace opens in Toronto’s Eaton Centre
(04/05/2023)
Recently opened, BMO Place is a 32,516-m2 (350,000-sf) workspace for the Bank of Montreal (BMO) within Toronto’s Eaton Centre at Yonge-Dundas Square. The workplace has repurposed a former Sears office into a transformative space with...
Many of Havergal’s original buildings utilize copper material for roofs, parapets, and flashings. The strength and resilience of these copper elements prove well-suited, especially for educational and institutional buildings with long lifespans.
A series of five student residences at the University of British Columbia (UBC), tə šxʷhəleləm̓s tə k̓ʷaƛ̓kʷəʔaʔɬ (The Houses of the Ones Belonging to the Saltwater), address the importance of student wellness, inclusivity, and...
The design for the Dining and Operations Centre at the University of Toronto’s (U of T’s) Koffler Scientific Reserve (KSR) in King Township, Ontario, reimagines the future of school design by combining sustainability and...
Study ranks Montreal fourth among sponge-like cities
(02/01/2023)
Montreal has ranked fourth in a study grading cities on their ability to absorb rainfall through the presence of blue-green infrastructure, such as trees, parks, and wetlands, as opposed to concrete and grey stormwater...
Sustainable construction materials company, Lafarge Canada (Lafarge), and power company, TransAlta Corporation (TransAlta), have entered an agreement to advance low-carbon concrete projects in Alberta, replacing cement as a concrete constituent with a waste product,...
University of Toronto’s newest research centre—consisting of cross-disciplinary university academics and 12 construction and architecture companies—will find ways to meet the urgent and growing need for infrastructure, without compounding the negative environmental impact.
This presentation will be an interactive session to take the audience through the challenges we face as an industry on our quest to achieve a sustainable future for building façade design and installation in...
Recent efforts in North America to reduce embodied carbon in concrete are similar to British solutions to eradicate cobras in colonial India. Simple solutions often create bigger problems than the complex ones they were...
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